Like her last film Beau travail (1998), Trouble Every Day (2001) sees Claire Denis taking a sexual narrative that has been familiarised through theoretical (often psychoanalytic) interpretation and filming it in such a way ...

What is horror's discourse and what is the discourse on horror? The inventor of terror is power – a concept of power that has its ultimate horizon in the divine. But in hell, on the screen or on the page, horror is elsewhere. ...

When it deals with the planet Mars, nineteen-nineties science-fiction faces an alternative: either the heroes adapt to Mars' hard conditions (and that's "pantropy"), or they adapt Mars to make it livable for human beings ...

Fantastic and horror, as they are experienced through literature, do not create fear in the same way. The feeling of the fantastic comes from the acceptance of the existence of a strange and disquieting alternate universe. ...